Example sentences of "[noun] 's [vb pp] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , he had restrained his own consumption just as Cunningham 's had begun to accelerate out of control . |
| 2 | Since the tendered bills were issued by NVOCC 's , and the NVOCC 's had issued the bills while placing the goods on the first means of conveyance and not on the ocean going vessel , banks either rejected such bills or required additional statements or notations attesting to actual loading on the ocean going vessel . |
| 3 | The Pools had closed down and Eileen and Joe were unemployed but Littlewood 's had made arrangements for their staff to sign on for unemployment pay at the Edge Lane office . |
| 4 | Most of those who had come to Beatrix 's had done so out of love , whereas duty clearly impelled the score of senior staff from Ladram Avionics who turned out to bid Maurice a corporate farewell . |
| 5 | Then , as in the nature of things Beatrice 's lot had improved , so Aunt Nessy 's had declined , and her little house had come to look very small and pinched . |
| 6 | Wrangler , which had continued to churn out laughably jingoistic ads , decided that Levi 's had fallen victim to its own nostalgic hype and altered the perspective . |
| 7 | We were amazed at just how much the archaeologist 's had missed , even using small trowels and brushes as they do . |
| 8 | A bakery had become a betting shop and a draper 's had turned into the offices of a building society . |
| 9 | All of a sudden , the morning gathering at Mrs Tiverton 's had lost a little of its terror , for just at this instant it seemed less threatening than Mr Aycliffe 's serious face , demanding of her this fatal choice . |
| 10 | I do n't know what Spike 's half 's got left . |
| 11 | It was well for Breeze that all the holidays she had spent in St Petrock 's had accustomed her to invalids — but even so , she had never seen anybody who looked as ill as the old , old man who lay propped up on cushions in the corner facing the engine . |
| 12 | The whooper and the Be wick 's had survived a 2,300-mile flight from Siberia , families arriving together . |
| 13 | BEFORE the acquisition of Hoare 's , Charrington 's had bought several other East End brewers ; the other half of the Wiltshire brewery in Bethnal Green ; Savill Brothers ' Stratford Brewery , Maryland Point in 1925 , the year it closed its Burton brewery ; and two years later Tilney 's Alma brewery , Spelman Street , Whitechapel , founded in 1854 . |
| 14 | The crowd outside Naamen 's had spilled into Wigmore Street , stopping oncoming traffic , but the cops were trying to clear our lane . |
| 15 | Vital patterns become distorted and lost in the sort of fragmentation and change with which Eliot 's textual studies in a battery of languages and his reading of works like Cornford 's had made him particularly familiar . |
| 16 | The driver must be someone who did n't know the district well , or he would n't have gone along the Applewick lane ; and that meant it was very likely he would n't realise that his van would hit the arch of the bridge instead of going under it , just as her daddy 's had done once . |
| 17 | It was after this that Brother George ( Every ) and in his own way Father Gabriel ( Herbert ) , whose book Faber 's had published , told me that , on arrival at Kelham ( as everybody called the monastic headquarters ) , Eliot had been extremely , if not painfully , shy : so much so that the Fathers had not known how to deal with him . |
| 18 | In 1178 the canons of St Stephen 's had elected as bishop Sebrand Chabot , a man whom they knew would be unacceptable to the King . |
| 19 | Elaine 's had run off and Ethel was still running after hers and Nell 's was dead and Mary 's a dead loss . |
| 20 | St Matthew 's had liaised with the Refuge about Harry but they had n't known what to suggest . |
| 21 | But in this case the routine 's got huggered up , if you 'll excuse my French , because someone 's short-circuited the standard procedure . ’ |
| 22 | This and his link with Stevenson 's had served him well over the last few years , and he had become something of an expert in railway funding , especially in European railways . |
| 23 | She wondered if Wolff and his brother were good bankers ; Stevenson 's had used them only as agents for buying and selling foreign exchange . |
| 24 | For the Kuwait Oil Tanker Company ( KOTC ) , the news , at a time of generally increasing premiums , that Lloyd 's had decided to include Kuwait in their definition of the War Zone was especially unwelcome . |
| 25 | Senior market official , David Coleridge , said recently that Lloyd 's had lost out to Commercial Union on a multi-million-pound contract from Trafalgar House because it was unable to offer a ‘ package deal ’ . |
| 26 | Senior market official , David Coleridge , said recently that Lloyd 's had lost out to Commercial Union on a multi-million-pound contract from Trafalgar House because it was unable to offer a ‘ package deal ’ . |
| 27 | The cut on her brow seemed to have healed completely ; Adam 's had disappeared as well , she thought , remembering as best she could . |
| 28 | But whereas Spiegelman 's had evolved by ‘ degeneration ’ from naturally occurring , larger , Q-beta viral RNA , those of the Eigen group had built themselves up from almost nothing . |
| 29 | A letterpress accompanying the illustrations would give the work a scientific legitimacy that Audubon 's work as well as Lear 's had lacked . |
| 30 | At the back of his mind was the fear that he had been given too much air , that his lungs could not sustain the pressure , that they would collapse as Commander Barnwell 's had collapsed . |